..1 . ' - 2k It N 4 atil Weather snow, u VOL. LIV No. ... ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, FEB. 10, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS MESA Seeks Probe of Representation on WB i Fifth Army Batters On TO Gassino Yanks Push To Relieve Allied Forces Trapped In Anzio Bridgehead By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-; giers, Feb. 9.-Ferocious crag-to-crag1 fighting raged on heights overlookingj Cassino on the main Italian front today as American troops opened a full-strength assault to destroy that Nazi hornet's nest which was hold- ing up their push to relieve beleag- uered Allied forces in the Anzio bridgehead 50 miles away.1 (Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's main Fifth Army is slugging violently att the Cassino defenses, declared the German-controlled Vichy radio, "with 30,000 men, 400 tanks and powerful artillery.")1 (The Americans have made "short local advances west of Cassino," the1 British radio said in a broadcast re- corded in New York by NBC. At the same time the British Eighth ArmyI on the Adriatic side of the Italian boot was declared to haveinflicted "large casualties" on a German unit probing British positions.) American riflemen, charging up the steep cliffs of Monte Cassino west of the town through a hell of German artillery, mortar and machine gun fire, at one time reached a point only 75 yards from the ancient Benedic- tine monastery which crowns the crest of that key height, dispatches from the front disclosed. Inside Cassino itself the sweat- stained doughboys fought into sev- eral more fortified buildings, but aft- er a week of fierce house-to-house combat the Nazis still held about three-fourths of the stronghold and their lne of supply-was unbroken.. The long-delayed breakthrough at Cassino can come none too soon to serve Allied strategy. Two Killed in. TrainCrash Ypsilanti Collision Fatal To Belleville Couple A collision on Beck Rd. and Michi- gan Ave., south of Ypsilanti, involv- ing an eastbound Michigan Central freight train and an automobile cost the lives of the two occupant of the auto, Ypsilanti State Police officers reported. The accident occurred at 2 p.m., yesterday. The victims are: Percy W. Isbell, aged 36, and his wife, Flora, aged 41. Their residence was at 46537 Ecorse Rd., Belleville. Explaining the circumstances sur- rounding the accident, police officials stated that when the gates ae lowered they do not extend across the entire width of the road. Thus it is possible to circle the gates even when they are down. The wreckage was strewn for about 35 feet after the car collided with the eastbound freight train. Protest End of White Paper Protesting the stoppage of Jewish immigration into Palestine through the revocation of the White Paper, Avukah, Zionist organization on campus, will circulate petitions in front of the Main Library today. The White Paper was a program passed by the British House of Com- mons in 1939 allowing for 75,000 Jews per year to enter Palestine. This program was to last five years, after which time Palestine was to be turn- ed over to the Arabs who would then regulate Jewish entry. The, White Paper expires March 31, and no pro- visions have been made to extend it. These petitions will be sent to the British Ambassador in Washington. Mistreatment of Thomas Denied DETROIT, Feb. 9.--(P)-Warder Senate Defeats Food Subsidy; AFL Men Attack 'Little Steel' Siipplies Pour Ashore as Yanks Take Kw'iajalein Isla r 'ld epel( lent 7, Membership Union Members On WLB Want to 'junk' Formula By he Assoiated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-A new at- tack on the Administration's wage stabilization policies was launched today by the four AFL members of the War Labor Board who declared the time has come to junk the "Little Steel" formula for a new, "realistic figure based upon the actual cost of living." The demand coincided with the start of Senate debates on proposals to outlaw use of subsidies to hold down consumer food prices. It was based on the contention that price control has fallen so far short of goals that "the only recourse left to workers is to obtain wage rate in- creases." Labor's acceptance heretofore of the "Little Steel" formula has "ap- parently been misinterpreted in the halls of Congress," the American Federation of Labor men said. The "Little Steel" formula, so- named from its first application in a steel wage case, limits general wage increases to 15 percent above the lev- el of January, 1941. El'man To Give. Choral Union Concert Today Mischa Elman, internationally famous Russian-born violinist, will present the ninth Choral Union con- cert at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Audi- torium. "Poeme," by the French composer Chausson, and the Concerto in A -majtrof Glazounow will be the major works to be performed. The A major sonata of Handel and the D major sonata of Brahms will also be heard. As the concluding work Elman will give a rendition of the Paganini Ca- price No. 24 as arranged by his fam- ous teacher, Professor Leopold Auer, for violin. Born in 1892 in Tolna, Russia, El- man was only three years old when his father discovered his son's tal- ent for music. The child could re- peat with perfect pitch any tune he heard. A teacher was arranged for, and shortly after he entered the Odessa Imperial Academy of Music. House Sends Soldier Vote to Conference WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-(AP)-Dis- agreeing with Senate action on ser- vicemen's votes, the House moved to- day to send it to conference for ad- justment of differences over federal or state ballots. Five conferees were named by Speaker Rayburn to represent the House, but the Senate did not im- mediately act to name conferees. Proposal To Spend Money on Farmers Severely Debated. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Foes of consumer food subsidies won a major preliminary victory over the Admin- istration today when the Senate turn- ed down, 49 to 26, a proposal to per- mit the spending of $1,500,000,000 on such subsidies in 1944. The proposal was made by Senator Maloney (Dem., Conn.) in the form of an amendment to the pending bill by Senator Bankhead (Dem., Ala.) which would kill the subsidies. The subsidy payments, without specific Congressional authority, now are costing about $1,000,000,000 a year. Administration leaders -backed the Maloney proposal, designed to put a $1,500,000,000 ceiling on the expend- itures. The vote came at the end of the first day of debate on the revived is- sue, which produced a charge from Senator George (Dem., Ga.) that the subsidy program constituted "politics of the rawest kind" and a prediction from Maloney that without the pay- ments there will be "a hue and cry for wage increases the like of which we have never seen." George elaborated on an "infla- tion" protest already raised by Bank- head, and told the Senate that the whole plan was basically one of labor appeasement at the expense of the farmer. To continue the subsidy system, he declared, would "amount to appease- ment because we are repeatedly warn- ed that if we break the line labor is going to demand constant increases in wages. Finland May' Take Action on U.S. Ultimatum STOCKHOLM, Feb. 10, Thursday, --(AP)-The Finnish cabinet held a regular session last night and there is a "possibility that preliminary decisions were taken" in connection with the American declaration to Finland to quit the war or take the consequences, a Swedish dispatch said today. The Helsinki correspondent of the Dagens Nyheter said the cabinet meeting was preceded by a closed morning session of the Finnish Par- liament's Foreign Policy Committee at which Sir Henrik Ramsey, for- eign minister, reviewed the situation for an hour. (U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull said at a press conference in Washington yesterday that Finland had been told again that the respon- sibility for the consequences of her collaboration with Germany and continued state of ar with a num- ber of Allies of the United States.) Supplies, including land trucks, tanks, oil drums, ammunition and other material, pour ashore on Kwajalein Island as American forces invaded the Japs' Marshall Island bases and took them from the Japanese. Kwajalein was struck by air and naval forces so terrifically, it was reported, that it virtually fell because of its own weight into the lap of ground troops. Because of intense operations, communi- cations between Japan's isolated garrisons in the Marshalls are probably disrupted, the Navy announced. SECRET BLOWS: *H * * U.S. Forces Blast Remaining Jap Holds in Marshall Is lands U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 9-(A')-New and secret blows against Japan's remaining holds in the Mar- shall Islands.are being struc* by the United States air and nava forces which hit the defenses of Kwajalein atoll so hard that it virtually fell of its own weight into the lap of ground troops. Because Japan's communications with its isolated garrisons in the Marshalls probably have been dis- rupted, the .Navy adopted a policy of not identifying the targets of bombs and shells. Jaluit Attacked In the newest air and ship attacks, announced last night, only one atoll was named, Jaluit, at the southern end of the Archipelago. Several ene- my boats were sunk in the raid there World News Iin Brief ... Shakespearian Comedy Cast Members By The Associated Press jap Convoy Destroyed.... WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The de- stroyer Burns wiped out an entire convoy of four Japanese ships in the Marshall Islands area on January 31 the Navy announced tonight. Embassies Created ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.--The United States and Iran have decid- ed to raise their diplomatic mis- sions from legations to embassies, the State Department announced today. Japs Advance in Burma.. . NEW DELHI, Feb. 9.-Despite de- termined resistance, the Japanese have made advances in the last four days toward the British supply line in the Arakan district of Burma, an Allied communique revealed today. AAF Hits France.. . LONDON, Feb. 9.-The steady bomb barrage along the French "Invasion Coast" lifted suddenly today and arched 100 miles inland with more than 200) U.S. medium Marauders striking heavily at rail- road yards and repair shops at Tergnier. Jap Sub Bombed ... A Japanese submarine, perhaps impressed as a cargo carrier to maul- ed Rabaul, was hit by American last Sunday. Jaluit already had been attacked 16 times this year. Other atolls under attack may have included those that have been bombed most frequently -- Wotje, Mili and Maleolap. Fighter Field Hit One of the objectives of the Sev- enth Army Air Force bombers in the latest raids was the "Pet Fighter Field" of the Japanese, reported Paul Beam, Associated Press Correspond- ent. (Beam may have referred to the enemy airfields on Taroa islet of the Maleolap atoll. In the pre-invasion raids on the Marshalls, that atoll was the center of greatest enemy resist- ance. Virtually every raid there brought up a flock of enemy inter- ceptors, the number often being re- ported as 30 and once reaching 45.) Singing Contest Entries Are Due Barber Shop Quartets To Compete at V-Ball Entries for V-Ball's barber-shop quartet contest must be filed by 5 p.m. tomorrow in either the Union Student Offices or at The Daily. Finals of the contest, designed to discover the best barber-shop quar- tet from among the many different American colleges represented here by the men in service, will be run off during V-Ball March 3 in the Sports Building. All entering quartets are asked to prepare one old barber-shop number, "Sweet Adeline. .. Down by the Old Mill Stream . . . She was only a Bird," and one traditional song from their original alma mater. An elimination selection will be made from all the entries and passes to the dance will be given the final campeting quartets. Individual awards will be given the winning quartet and further details may be obtained at the time the en- tries are filed. Russians Push Near Ukrainian Iron Ore Center LONDON, Feb. 10, Thursday.-(P) -Russian forces stabbing toward the iron ore center of Krivoi Rog in the Southern Ukraine, have reached to within eight miles of that heavily - fortified mining city in a 14-mile advance, Moscow announced today, while other Soviet units to the north have killed 1,000 more Germans in the tightened vise squeezing ten trapped Nazi divisions. In the Shpola-Zvenigorodka area where the Germans are surrounded, the Russians captured the district center of Gorodische, 18 miles north of Shpola in a battle which' cost the Germans hundreds of men. Twenty- six big guns and other war material were captured in this area. German attempts to break into the encircling ring with attacks from outside again were defeated, said the Moscow midnight communique, re- corded by the Soviet monitor from a broadcast. A total of 3,800 Germans fell dur- ing the fighting along the entire front in the last 24 hours Moscow said. In the most northerly action, where the Russians were driving for the bitter fighting as Soviet forces over- came the heavily defended district center of Oredezh, 18 miles north- east of Luga. Panel Discusses World Police "Law has the basic function of protecting certain groups. Therefore, if you're going to have an interna- tional police force based upon law, you must first know what the laws are going to do," Max Dresden said yesterday at a Post-War Council panel discussion. The general topic, "An Interna- tional Police Force?", was discussed by a student-faculty panel composed of Dresden, Prof. Arthur Aiton of the history department and George Sim- mons, Joyce Siegan and Harvey Weisberg. William Muehl, '44L, was moderator. Is Requested Union Asks FDR To Investigate Claim of CIO, AFL Monopoly By The Associated Press CLEVELAND, Feb. 9. - The Me- chanics Educational Society of Am- erica called tonight upon President Roosevelt to "order an investigation" of CIO and AFL membership on the War Labor Board. The union's national administrative committee telegraphed the appeal to the President following MESA's de- cision to continue indefinitely a truce in its recent four-day strike-that effected more than 40 Ohio and Mich- igan war plants - for independent union representation on the WLB. The telegram, addressed to the Presi- dent, referred to a MESA hearing be- fore the WLB yesterday and said: Indepedents at Disadvantage "Our society . . . attended a hear- ing of the War Labor Board in Wash- ington on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 1944. We learned from the press that Mr. Will- iam H. Davis has referred the case to you for possible action. We feel that it is vital for you to understand our union's case and the disadvantage- ous position of all independent unions in their dealing with government agencies having to do with labor matters." "Under present condtions inde- pendent unions can only exist for a short time as non-representation makes it impossible for them to de- liver the usual service upon which depends the survival of any labor union. Our cases when taken be- fore the tri-partite War Labor Board have to depend for support on labor members belonging to either the AFL or CIO who dis- seminate propaganda among our ' t CONCLAVE HERE SATURDAY: Recreational Problems Will Be Discussed -Daily Photo by Katie Tripp 'Comedy of Errors' Continues Volunteer and professional work- ers will meet here to discuss recrea- tional problems when the South- eastern Michigan Recreational Work- shop convenes at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Rackham Building. Both general and specific prob- lpmcof p.a.ti.on will be cnnsd- cational, industrial and also in the church. The purpose and plan of the Workshop will be presented at a general assembly to be held at 9:15 a.m. in the Rackham amphitheatre by Ross L. Allen, of the physical eaion dearntment. shop will then adjourn for luncheon which will be held in the Michigan League Cafeteria. In the afternoon session section meetings will discuss recreation as an aid to community organization, social recreation, woodcraft and campcraft and church recreatinn. > f^~r of, 4-,t, laAc i inI i